Insecurity In Guatemala

Environmental factors are a factor that affect living and nonliving organisms and have participated in Ethiopia’s problem in food deficiency and food insecurity. A large environmental factor that can affect food deficiency and food insecurity is natural hazards and disasters. These can include droughts and floods which can upset agricultural production. For example, grain production and stocks are very low and droughts have hit harvests in grain-producing areas around the world. A more specific example for Ethiopia is that because of Ethiopia’s seasonal rainfall from mid-June to mid-September, soil erosion and

Guatemala is a small country in central America, bordered by Honduras, Belize, El Salvador, and Mexico. Guatemala is best known for their indigenous Mayan culture and excavated ruins of the Mayan empire, nature, and their world class coffee. If you visit Guatemala, you’ll see that it is unique in many ways.

Food insecurity is a term that was introduced by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA labels the insecurity based on the severity with four different groups. One group is the Low Food Security; which means low quality, desirability or variety but no or little reduction of food. Very Low Food Security is reduced food intake and multiple disruptions of eating patterns. The opposite spectrum is High Food Security. This is no food limitations or no issues accessing food. Marginal food security is sufficient supply of food with some concern of ability to supply. (USDA, https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-us/definitions-of-food-security.aspx).

Like any country, there are a variety of health concerns. About 50 percent of the children are malnourished-phsycially and mentally. When people experience malnourishment, often times it can stunt people’s growth as such a young age. Some illnesses are heart disease, kidney damage, and anemia, which can lead into adulthood.

In Mexico, around forty five percent of its one hundred and eighteen million people face food shortages or hunger. In south America, nearly ten million Peruvians suffer from hunger; that is nearly one-third of the population. In many countries around the world, it is the rural poor who suffer most. Hunger and disease, is usually in close combination and often precipitated by natural disasters or war, have plagued humankind throughout history. People need nutrition to be strong and to be able to go to school or work, but without any healthy food that cannot happen. Their bodies cannot process the activities or material they are shown due to lack of nutrients that you get from healthy sustenance. therefore, they are not able to get a good paying job or education for later in their future. World hunger is a problem that must be addressed as seen through illness,

Food insecurity is a term that indicates the limited capability to afford nutritionally adequate and safe food or the limited ability to obtain adequate foods in socially acceptable ways (1-2). In 2015, 13% of all U.S. households, which represents 42.2 million people (including 29.1 million adults and 13.1 million children), were food insecure (3) and food insecurity was found to be present in every county in the United States, ranging from a low of 4% in Loudoun County, VA to a high of 38% in Jefferson County, MS (4).

Food insecurity is a problem in the United States, though people may not realize that it effects people differently. When it comes to food insecurity, disparities are seen in a variety different populations. These populations are the ones who utilize food pantries and food assistance programs. Some of these populations include: children, older adults, rural populations, immigrants, and single-parents.

According to Singh and Cohen (2014), Haitis cycle of drought, storms, and floods have devastating impacts on agriculture, and this along with a change in rainfall patterns wreak havoc with farmers planting cycle. “On the consumption side of the food-security equation, Haiti depends heavily on food imports. Global prices for key staples are also expected to rise by 120–180 per cent by 2030, in part as a result of the effects of climate change, with ominous implications for Haitian consumers” (Singh and Cohen,

A large problem of childhood poverty is malnutrition. Since these children are growing up in poverty, many of the parents have a hard time supplying food for their kids. Surprisingly, there

Food insecurity refers to “the lack of adequate, nutritious, and safe foods, typically due to financial resource constraints” (Bickel, et al. 43). Food insecurity is not associated with the overall diet quality. Envision not knowing when or where the next meal will be coming from. “Improving household food security is a chance for society to help enhance the outcome of families that struggle with food insecurities.”

This journal entry is pertinent to my paper because it gives details about food insecurity and the reason it occurs in families. The authors are not bias on the subject because of the proven evidence from the research. I will use this source to justify the causes of food insufficiency in my paper.

In the article “ Warming world is a threat to the world’s food supplies,” CCPA Monitor writer John Vidal (2013) explains that climate change affects food supplies and triggers a domino effect in the world, such as economy, policy, environment, and agriculture. The writer also indicates most vulnerable people are easily affected by climate change, as the poor people and children and the number of those people still rising. There will be up to 2 billion more people to be fed by 2050. According to the author, climate change will cause crop shortages and price increases, that government are actively adjusting countermeasure to the issues (Vidal, 2013).

The poor remain most vulnerable to the effects of extreme weather conditions. Climate change is likely to exacerbate the exiting food security issues, and impact heavily upon women and children, and on those reliant on subsistent agriculture. Climatic shocks can tip a large proportion of the Afghan population into absolute poverty, a large proportion of whom live just above poverty line. Increased prevalence of disease will affect availability of labour for agriculture and other non-farm rural activities. Water disputes have plagued central Asia for years (Rashid 2000, p

The availability of food is based on the amount and quality of the food produced. The DRC agricultural industry supports ⅔ of the population, and is split into two sectors: subsistence and commercial. Four million families rely on subsistence farming to produce manioc, corn and tubers. What’s left of commercial farmers, concentrate on producing the export orientated food, but the DRC does not have much of a commercial sector because of the war, which has deteriorated the infrastructure of the market.

Food is one of the basic needs of a human being to survive. All of us depend on food for having a good health, therefore with the lack of food many people will be starving and malnourished.